Everyday Stuff - March Edition

Remember our last/first big snow?  This is the snowman 3 days later.  Yes, when this snowman was in the sun, he melted, melted melted.... very slowly.  Also notice how much warmer the weather was.  The kids were having a picnic with Cat's friend Lily in the back yard. 

I discovered this winter that my Pampered Chef baking stone rack is the perfect item for drying gloves and mittens.

The kind of fun you can only have with Daddy.

Love this.  And love these quilts Mema made!

When I pulled the chairs out of the dining area to clean the floor, Eliza climbed right up into her seat to read a book.  Sometimes just moving an item from its normal location will do wonders.

Being a big boy Sunbeam at Church can be exhausting.

Yogurt!

Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with... oh, nevermind.
(And, yes, these were cleaned up and put away as soon as I took the picture.)

Do you remember the video of Cat reading a homework assignment in which she exclaimed,
"I love love love to SING!"?
I smiled when I saw this card.  I'm glad that singing isn't the only thing she "love love loves."

How I know I'm working hard against a deadline: I not only let the kids do things, but sometimes suggest that they do things, they otherwise would get in trouble for. 

I love it when I find my kids happily playing together.
It's always such a pleasant surprise.

The beginning of the Pinkeye Epidemic.  That was fun.

A picnic with Ben during his lunch break between classes.  We picked him up and drove to a little green space with a duck pond on the south end of BYU campus.  We were happy to discover lots of turtles in the pond as well.

Just call her "Eliza the Barbarian."
She swallowed the amputated leg while I was trying to get her to spit it out.